Machinery for use in the manufacture of mosaic or inlaid floor-cloth.



No. 694,233.- Patented Feb. 25, I902.

E. BATTEN.

MACHINERY FOR USE IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MOSAIC 0R INLAID FLOOR CLOTH.

(Application filed Jugy 29. 1901.) (No Model.) 3 Sheets-8heet l.

W'il'nessas No. 694,233. A Patented Feb. 25', 1902.

E. BATTEN.

MACHINERY FOR USE IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MOSAIC UR INLAID FLOOR CLOTH. (Application filed July 29. 1901.)

No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 2.

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IAGHINERY FOR USE IN THE MANUFAOTURE'OF MOSAIC OR INLAID FLOOR CLOTH.

' (Application filed July- 29, 1901.) (No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 3.

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NTTED STATES PATENT CFFICE.

EDWARD BATTEN, OF KIRKOALDY, SCOTLAND.

MACHINERY FOR USE IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MOSAIC 0R INLAID FLOOR-CLOTH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 694,233, dated February 25, 1902.

Application filed July 29, 1901.

To all whom, it may concern:

Beitknown that I, EDWARD BATTEN, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Kirkealdy, Scotland, have invented new and useful Improvements in Machinery for Use in the Manufacture of Mosaic orInlaid Floor- Cloth, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that type of machinery for use in the manufacture of mosaic or inlaid floor-cloth in which tesserze-cutting cylinders are arranged to deposit the cut tesserze upon a backing while the latter is engaged with a pin or card covered cylinder the pins or teeth of which project through the said backing and engage with the tesserae de posited on it and hold them in place thereon, the backing and tesserae afterward passing together to a heater and being subjected to pressure for the purpose of causing adhesion of the tesserze to each other and to the backing.

My said invention consists in the improvements in machinery of the said type, which are hereinafter described.

The objects of my said improvements are as follows: first, to admit of tesseree of a greater variety of colors being cut by the machinery and used in the production of the pattern without increase of the diameter of the pin-carrying cylinder upon which the inlaying or arrangement of the tesserze on the backing fabric takes place; further, to admit of increase of speed of the machinery without decrease of the time available for correction of the pattern by hand; further, to provide for removal from the heads of the cutter-cylinder plungers when projected from between the cutters of such of the tesserze as have not been transferred to or inlaid on the backing fabric by the action of the machinery and of such of the tesserae as are not required to make up the pattern, the removal of which tesserze in machines provided with additional cutting mechanism according to my said in-' vention cannot be efiected by theordinary means.

I will describe my said invention with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 represents diagrammatically in side view the principal of the working parts of projected from between the knives.

7 Serial No. 70,154. (No model.)

a machine of the aforesaid type having my said improvements combined therewith. Figs. 2 and 3 are enlarged sectional views of my arrangements for removal of tesseree from the heads of the cutter-cylinder plungers when Fig. at is a detail hereinafter referred to.

In the following description the parts of the said drawings are referred to by the letters marked thereon. The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures of the drawings. The arrows on the said figures indicate the direction of rotation of the parts.

or represents the pin-covered cylinder on which the inlaying is effected.

b 12 12 19 represent the ordinary tesseraa-cutter cylinders, and c c c c the ordinary pressing-cylinders against which the said cuttercyliners act. I

d represents the backing fabric,which is carried partly around the cylinder a and thence through and from the machine, as hereinafter described.

6 represents the ordinary heated cylinder for producing adhesion of the tesserze to each other and tothe backing fabric.

fis a drum, andf are rollers supporting an endless sheet by which the mosaic or inlaid fabric, consisting of the backing fabric with the tesserae thereon, is carried around the heated cylinder e, as usual. ordinary pressing-rollers forpressing the said mosaic or inlaid fabric against the said cylinder c.

h h are rolls, and t' t' are scrapers bearing on the cylinder 6 and constituting the ordinary means for cleaning the said cylinder, and j is the ordinary wax-applying roll.

is l are two cylinders which I term, respecgg gg are the tively, the bending-cylinder and the justifying-cylinder, and the arrangement of The surface of the said bendbending-cylinder 7c and then over the justifying-cylinder Z on its way to the heated cylinder 6. The bending-cylinder 7c rotates freely as the mosaic fabric passes under it, andthe justifying-cylinder Z receives motion from the pin-cylinder a through the medium of a toothed wheel Z. The object of the said bending-cylinder 7c is primarily to provide for the mosaic fabric being carried over a sufficient portion of the pin-covered inlaying-cylinder a to admit of arrangement in juxtaposition to the said cylinder of the additional cutting mechanism, hereinbefore referred to. The said cylinder 70, however, also serves to press the mosaic fabric against the j ustifying-cylinderZ-and cause the pins of that cylinder to pass through the backing fabric and enter the tesserae thereon, and so hold them in place while the mosaic fabric is passing to the heated cylinder e. While on the justifying-cylinder Z a large portion of the pa ttern-face of the mosaic fabric is exposed to view for examination of the pattern and correction of any errors by attendants, who stand on a platform (indicated by the line m) and whose duty is to place tesserae' in any spaces which may be unoccupied in consequence of the tesserae which should have been placed therein b'ythe inlaying action of the machine having accidentally remained on the heads of the cuttercylinder plungers.

In the working of machinery embodying my aforesaid improvements the cloth which is to form the backing of the mosaic fabric lies, as usual, next the face of the inlayingcylinder a, the pins of which project through the said backing and receive the tesseraa, which are cut and deposited on it by the ordinary action of the knives and mechanism of the cutter-cylinders. In, passing under the bending-cylinder k the backing is outermost, and in passing around the justifying-cylinder Z the tesserae are outermost, so-that the pattern-face of the fabric is then exposed-and accessible to the attendants standing onthe platform m.

In consequence of the mosaic fabric being by means of the bending-cylinder is kept in contact with a larger portion of the cylinder a than is possible in machines of the ordinary construct-ion space is obtained for the arrangement 1n connection with the said cylin- -der 0. of more than the ordinary number of sets, of cutting mechanism in conjunction with an inlaying-cylinder a of the usual diameter, which number has not heretofore exceeded four, whereas by my arrangement two additional sets of tesseraa-cuttingmechanism,

making in all six, may be arranged in conjunction with the said inlaying-cylinder, as

illustrated in Fig. 1, in which figure the said two'additional sets of cutting mechanism are I shown on the left-hand side of the said'cylinthe mosaic fabric exposed to view'on the justifying-cylinder Z- being much larger than that exposed to view in existing machines which do not comprise such cylinder my improved machines may be driven at a much higher speed than is usual in the case of existing machines without abbreviation of the time during which the pattern is under examination for correction by hand.

The arrangements for removal of tesserze not inlaid and those not required from the cylinders 11 bf of the two additional groups of cutting mechanism are best shown in Figs. 2 and 3. They consist in the case of both groups of pin or card covered rollers n n o 0, geared to the respective cutter-cylinders, which rollers have arranged in conjunction with them clearing-combs pig q. The'pin rollers n a come into action when the plungers of the cutter-cylinders are projected by the ordinary mechanism provided for admitting of lubrication of their heads, the tesserae being then impaled and removed from the plunger-heads by the pins of the said rollers and afterward released from the said pins by the said combs p p, from which they pass onto bars pp, supporting the said combs, and collect there until removed by hand. In working with machines provided with my improvements I dispense with the usual lubrication of the plunger-heads and knives and instead I lubricate the material from which the tesserae'are 'cut. The tesserae impaled and removed from the heads of the plungers of the cutter-cylinders b b by the pins of the said rollers 0 0 are cleared-from the said pins by the combs q q. In the case of the cylinder b the tesseree fall fromthe clearingcomb q onto an endless traveling beltr,which passes over rollers rr, one of "which is geared to the roller 0, whereby the-said tesserae are carried to a conveyer-box s. In the case of the cylinder 6 the tesserae are removed from the'clearing-comb' q and thrown into a conveyer-box t b'ya rotatory brush a, to which rapid motion is communicated from any convenient source. a is a comb projecting in the path of'motion of the outer part of the brush a, the purpose of which is to clear tesserze from the said brush.

Tooprevent wandering of the belt r, I

prefer to connectitatits edges to pitch-chains engaged with sprocket-wheels on' the necks of its rollers r r, as illustrated in plan view in Fig.4, in which figure the chain shown is marked 4) and the sprocket-wheels over which it passes are marked 1: o.

The construction I prefer for the combs p p q q is that plainly illustrated in Figs. 2and 3, in which figures the teethof the said combs are shown as formed 'of wires secured at one end in and projecting from a plate. The arrangements h'ereinbefore described for removal of tesserze from the cutter-cylinders are supported by the parts of the frame of the machine in which the groups of cutting mechanism to which they are applied are mounted. In Fig. 2 portions of the supports of the groups of mechanism containing the cutter-cylinders b b are shown at w w.

Although the pin-roller andcomb arrangement hereinbefore described for removal of tesscree from the cutter-cylinders is especially designed for use in connection with the two additional groups of cutting mechanism in consequence of the means ordinarily used for that purpose not being available for use in connection with the said groups of cutting mechanism, yet the said arrangement is capable of use in connection with the other groups of cuttingmechanism, and I preferso to use it, and in Fig. 1 I have shown it as applied to them.

I am aware that it has been proposed to use hooked or curved pickers for extracting the tesserze not required for the pattern from the spaces between the tesserze-cutting knives and to arrange combs in conjunction with such pickers for detaching the tesserse therefrom, and in reference to such proposed use I would observe that such pickers were found to be unsuitable for use where the size of the tesserze was less than about one inch and a half square or in the case of tesserze of the form of right-angled triangles where the sides containing the right angle were each less than about one inch and three-quarters long, and, further, that the said pickers were not used and were not suitable for use for removing tesserte from the plunger-plates when the machine was so arranged that the said plunger plates were projected out of the spaces between the knives by the action of the ma chine, but were designed and used solely for extracting the tesserze from out of those spaces. I refer to such use of pickers and combs in order that the distinction between them and my arrangement of pin rollers and combs for removal of tesserae from the cutter-cylinders may be clearly perceived, the points of distinction being, first, that the pins of mypin-rollers are not curved or hooked,

but are straight-pointed, and, further, that States of America 1. In machinery for use in the manufacture of mosaic or inlaid floor-cloth the improvements hereinbefore described whereby the production of patterns containing a greater number of colors can be obtained without increasing the diameter of the pin-cylinder upon which the inlaying of the tesserze is obtained,

In consequence of these dif the said improvements consisting in the combination with the said pin-cylinder and a heating-cylinder, of a bending-cylinder around which passes the mosaic fabric on leaving the pin-cylinder, a pin-carrying cylinder on the pins of which the said fabric is pressed by the bending-cylinder and partly around which the fabric passes with the pattern-face outermost, so as to permit of correction of the pattern of the fabric while it is so passing, outter-cylinders and pin;rollers and. combs arranged relatively to the cutter-cylinders and adapted for the removal of the tesserze from the heads of the plungers of the cutter-cylinders when projected from the knives thereof.

2 In machinery of the character described, a bending-cylinder around which passes the fabric, and a justifying-cylinder arranged in suitable relation to the bending-cylinder.

3. The means hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings for removal of tesserze from the plunger-heads of the cutter-cylinders when the plungers are projected from between the knives by the action of the cylinder mechanism that is to say the arrangement contiguously to the said cylinders of rotatory rollers from the peripheries of which project straight-pointed wires or pins adapted to penetrate the said tesserze and remove them from the plunger-heads and the combination with the said rollers of combs for disengaging the tesserae from the said pointed wires or pins the arrangement of the said combs being such that the free ends of their teeth lie between the rows of pointed Wires or pins on the said rollers and are in proximity to or in contact with the periph eries thereof.

4. In machinery of the character described, 7

means for removal of tesserze from the plunger-heads of .the cutter-cylinders when the plungers are projected from between the knives by the action of the cylinder mechanism that is to say, the arrangement contiguous tov the said cylinders of rotatory rollers from the peripheries of which project straight= pointed wires or pins adapted to penetrate the said tesseree and remove them from the plunger-heads and the combination with the said rollers of combs for disengaging the tesserze from the said pointed wires or pins, the arrangement of the said combs being such that the free ends of their teeth lie between the rows of pointed wires or pins on the said rollers and are in proximity to or in contact with the peripheries thereof, and an endless traveling apron for receiving and carrying away the tesserzedisengaged from the pinroller by the combs.

5. In machinery of the character described,

pointed Wires or pins adapted to penetrate rollers and are in proximity to or in contact the said tesserze and remove them from the with the peripheries thereof, and a rotatory 1o plunger-heads and the combination with the brush for removing the tesserze from the said said rollers of combs for disengaging the tes- 'comb.

5 serae from the said pointed Wires or pins, the EDWARD BATTEN. [L. s.]

arrangement of the said combs being such Witnesses: that the free ends of their teeth lie between THOMAS AITKEN,

the rows of pointed Wires or pins on the said JAMES CLARK. 

